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dairy policy issues.
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Dairy cows at a family farm in Chilliwack, B.C. Sylvain Charlebois, a noted academic on food
policy issues, says the federal government's proposed tax reforms will hurt family farms.
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The US
dairy industry aims to work with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on a number of trade
policy issues including the renegotiation of NAFTA, expanding market access channels in Asia, and preventing the loss of common food names.
Only the member version provides updates on IDFA's actions, progress, successes and new developments on
issues affecting the
dairy industry, such as NAFTA and trade
policies, geographical indications, ultrafiltered (UF) milk, the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard, Nutrition Facts label changes, the Food Safety Modernization Act, food waste and much more.
In a letter to the ambassador, Schumer said NAFTA should dismantle Canada's restrictive
dairy pricing
policies, known as Class 7, and called the
issue a «top priority.»
NMPF members market a majority of the milk produced in the United States and provides a forum through which
dairy farmers and their cooperatives formulate
policy on national
issues that affect milk production and marketing.
«I welcome President Trump's statement yesterday taking
issue with Canada's damaging new
dairy pricing
policies that are unfair trade barriers harmful to American
dairy farmers,» Schumer said today.
Before that, he spent six years in the office of former Senator Herb Kohl (D - WI), where he worked on agriculture appropriations, nutrition,
dairy policy, and other farm and food
policy issues.